Yesterday, RPJ Partner Nicole Page was quoted in Law360 in an article entitled, “A Cheat Sheet for Activision Blizzard’s Legal Woes.” Activision Blizzard, the largest gaming company in the Americas and Europe, has recently faced a slew of legal threats from the federal government concerning its workplace practices, ranging from...
Yesterday, it was reported that RPJ Client Jannat Gargi has been named senior vice president and head of documentaries at media company Westbrook, overseeing the production of non-fiction features and premium series. She was most recently vice president of documentaries at Vice Studios, where she developed award-winning documentaries including “Flee,”...
Disney+ has given the go-ahead to On the Edge with Alex Honnold, a three-part docuseries produced by Plimsoll Productions for National Geographic. The star climber charmed audiences in 2018 with the Oscar Award-winning documentary Free Solo, in which he bravely takes on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, one of...
National Geographic recently renewed “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” for a third season! The original documentary series, produced by RPJ client Muck Media and Peabody and duPont Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller (among others), follows van Zeller as she burrows into black market and trafficking networks to uncover illicit businesses,...
Not Going Quietly, directed and produced by independent studio People’s Television, Inc., will open at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles beginning August 12 and at Angelika Film Center in New York City on August 13! Official selection at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and Winner of the Audience Award and...
HBO Max has ordered eight episodes of “The Climb,” a rock climbing competition series where contestants exercise athleticism and acuity to vie for the title of the world’s best amateur climber. Developed by Jason Momoa’s production company On the Road and the show’s creators, The Intellectual Property Corporation, the series...
Journalist and filmmaker Daizy Gedeon was honored at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her latest documentary, Enough!: Lebanon’s Darkest Hour, which received the Cannes Film Festival’s “Movie That Matters Award” in association with the Better World Fund. Profiling the state of systemic corruption within Lebanon’s kleptocratic government, Enough! warns of...
Netflix has released the official trailer for Pray Away—directed by Kristine Stolakis and produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Television—scheduled to release on Tuesday, August 3. The documentary chronicles the polarity and popularity of Exodus International, an evangelical church group founded in the 1970’s, most known for...
On Monday, June 21, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the NCAA in the case of “National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston,” entitling many elite student-athletes to additional scholarships and education-related compensations—a decision that honors the work of long-time RPJ client and friend Sonny Vaccaro. Mr. Vaccaro, most known for...
Congratulations to our client Multitude Films, LLC, producer of APART, one of four episodes comprising the new documentary series Through Our Eyes, which begins streaming on HBO Max on July 22. The series tells the heartbreaking stories of children experiencing a wide range of difficult issues including homelessness, parental incarceration,...